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Jeremiah 12:1 (KJV)

Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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Genesis 18:25 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Deuteronomy 32:4 - [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.
Ezra 9:15 - O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Job 8:17 - His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
Job 12:6 - The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
Job 13:3 - Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 21:7 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 24:12 - Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
Job 24:23 - [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
Psalms 37:1 - [A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 37:35 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalms 51:4 - Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.
Psalms 51:6 - Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms 73:3 - For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms 92:7 - When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Psalms 94:3 - LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
Psalms 119:75 - I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Psalms 119:137 - TZADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.
Psalms 145:17 - The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Proverbs 1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
Isaiah 41:21 - Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 48:8 - Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 5:11 - For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:27 - As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jeremiah 5:28 - They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah 11:20 - But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah 12:6 - For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Daniel 9:7 - O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
Daniel 9:14 - Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Hosea 6:7 - But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Habakkuk 1:4 - Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Habakkuk 1:13 - [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
Zephaniah 3:5 - The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Malachi 2:17 - Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?
Malachi 3:15 - And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.
Romans 3:5 - But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

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